keithwwyse@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
Hi all Following your instructions regarding requesting assistance with the compatability of LinuxBIOS with different mainboards here are the specifications. I have an AMD Athlon XP2400+ in a Foxconn 741M01C-GX-6L as a desktop machine
This is the output of 'lspci -vvv'
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 Host (rev 0 3) Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Unknown device 0c4d
Foxconn BIOS? Is it actually an Award or Phoenix BIOS?
The problem with this mainboard is that it doesn't seem to like Linux boot systems. I have the Gentoo 2006.0 LiveCD Installer, and have installed this onto hda, but the system will not boot giving a non system disk error message. I've also contacted EdLUG about this as well. I was hoping that if LinuxBIOS is compatible, I can flash it to the memory and it will be able to boot the system.
The SIS 735 was the latest SIS supported. That was 4 yrs ago and in V1.
The 741 would be an interesting LinuxBIOS port since this device supports the Geode NX.
-Bari